Grobes Deutsches Liederbuch: Die Schonsten und Beliebtesten Deutschen Volks- und Kinderlieder in Text und Melodie

Politics & Social Sciences

Paul L. Davies

Mark Freedland

Politics & Government

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

Remedies is the subject of increasing academic interest. It is one of the key organising concepts of the obligations approach to the common law, the pre-eminent approach in law schools, now officially sanctioned by the Law Society. This second edition modernizes the first edition quite considerably. This work determines the place of remedies in contract and tort within the current debate about the reform of the common law obligation.

Remedies in Contract and Tort

Donald Harris

Business

Subjects, Citizens, Aliens, and Others: Nationality and Immigration Law (Law in Context)

Dummett, Ann and Andrew Nicol

This student text draws on a wide range of research findings, reports, statutes and decided cases in examining the key issues in sentencing policy and practice. It has been fully updated to take account of changes wrought by the Criminal Justice Act 1993.

Sentencing and Criminal Justice (Publications on the Near East, University of Washington)

Andrew Ashworth

This text explains why we experience indoor air pollution problems (such as Sick Building Syndrome) and how houseplants can help combat specific pollutants, including how and why they do it, and how to care for them. Each houseplant is rated according to its overall and specific effectiveness.

Eco-Friendly Houseplants: 50 Indoor Plants That Purify the Air in Houses and Offices

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

B. C. Wolverton

Gardening & Landscape Design

Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with the spine stamped in gilt.

Byzantium: The Bridge from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

ANGOLD, MICHAEL

Gordian Knot

Literature & Fiction

bernhard-schlink

Genre Fiction

Book DescriptionThe rise and fall of the great civilisations and what this meant for mankind.Product DescriptionIn 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before, and spread out to populate the Earth, arrived in Siberia, during the Ice Age. Because so much water was locked up at that time in the great ice sheets, several miles thick, the levels of the world's oceans were much lower than they are today, and early humans were able to walk across the Bering Strait, then a land bridge, without getting their feet wet, and enter the Americas. Then, the Ice Age came to an end, the Bering Strait re-filled with water, and humans in the Americas were cut off from humans elsewhere in the world. This division - with two great populations on Earth, each oblivious of the other - continued until Christopher Columbus 'discovered' America just before 1500 A.D. This is the fascinating subject of THE GREAT DIVIDE, which compares and contrasts the development of humankind in the 'Old World' and the 'New' between 15,000 B.C. and 1500 A.D. This unprecedented comparison of early peoples means that, when these factors are taken together, they offer a uniquely revealing insight into what it means to be human. THE GREAT DIVIDE offers a masterly and totally original synthesis of archaeology, anthropology, geology, meteorology, cosmology and mythology, to give a new shape - and a new understanding - to human history.

Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New

History

PETER WATSON

Americas

James Joyce: A Biography

In almost every recent poll, Ulysses has been acclaimed the greatest novel of the twentieth century. It is generally regarded as one of the outstanding landmarks of literary modernism, as important as T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land in expressing the experimental and international spirit of post-war Europe in the 1920s. Of all the modernists, James Joyce has had probably the most lasting effect on serious fiction. Indeed, Eliot said he had 'killed the nineteenth century'. Joyce's life followed the classic 'flight into exile' path taken by many creative writers in search of a broader vision. His fight against Irish parochial prejudices and censoriousness, his self-imposed exile from the country he loved, his stoical endurance of near-blindness, cast him in a heroic light. He was fine singer who could have had a successful career in opera and the concert hall. His dedication to authorship also picks him out as a writer in the romantic tradition of total commitment, suffering near-poverty and financial dependency for much of his life in his determination simply to write. He was fortunate in his benefactors.Four women in particular (Harriet Shaw Weaver, Margaret Anderson, Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier), through their generosity, ensured that Joyce was able to focus fully and continuously on his great literary projects, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Richard Ellmann's much admired biography of Joyce first appeared in 1959 and was republished in 1982. But new material continues to emerge, and this new biography draws on that and attempts to get beyond the exterior life to explore the inner landscape of a writer who continues to influence and fascinate, well over a century after his birth.

Gordon Bowker

This wonderfully entertaining journey takes us from Alistair Horne's childhood as a wartime evacuee in America to his career as a highly successful historian and biographer, via a stint as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. We travel with him from Germany to America, from Canada to France, from Latin America to the Middle East. A consummate biographer, the pages of Horne's 'Literary Vagabondage' abound with vivid character sketches of the friends and foes that have shaped his life.

But What Do You Actually Do?: A Literary Vagabondage

ALISTAIR HORNE

Biographies & Memoirs

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